Essay - Analyzing Hillary Clinton's Speech Hillary Clinton's Job at the Democratic...

Analyzing Hillary Clinton's Speech

Hillary Clinton's job at the Democratic National Convention was clear; she needed to unify her party after a closely contested r*****ce with Barack Obama. While the battle for ***** Democratic nomination had started out cordially, Clinton began waging personal attacks such as the infamous "not ready to answer the phone at three in the morning" campaign after she fell behind. Emotional attachment by supporters of both candidates ran high, leaving less than half of her ***** stating that they would definitely support Obama after her loss (What Hillary ***** speech needs to accomplish, 2008). So, to accomplish her unification goal, ***** needed to achieve two objectives, convincing her *****s ***** Obama is ***** for the job and making them believe that she truly wants them to support Obama.

On the first objective, ***** falls short, but she hit a home run on ***** second *****, although th***** may have been motivated by her own ***** ***** protecting her political future.

In ***** support ***** *****, Clinton elaborates on a l*****g list of re*****ons why she ran for president and states that these are the reasons that voters must now support Obama. She also rails against the existing Republican administration and McCain's candidacy. However, she never gets into the delicate issue ***** Obama's readiness to be President, something she ***** managed ***** make a real ***** during her campaign and ***** very issue that McCain is now targeting.

***** are many pleas for convincing the audience that she truly ***** them to support Obama, ***** the most powerful is:

want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this ***** just for me? Or were you ***** it ***** that young Marine and others like him? Were you in ***** for ***** mom struggling with cancer while raising her kids? Were ***** in it for that boy and his mom surviving on the minimum wage? Were you in ***** for all the people in this country who feel invisible?" (Transcript: Hillary Clint*****'s prime-time *****)

Underlying *****es that continually run through***** the speech about never giving up reveal the personality of Clinton; she ***** have lost this round, but ***** odds are high that ***** will be back ***** another try. To do so, she had to appear as a gracious loser ***** a generous s*****porter of the winner. This was the strength of her *****.

Bibliography

Transcript: Hillary Clinton's prime-time speech. NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94003143

***** Hillary Clinton's speech needs to accomplish (2008, August 26). Huffington Post.